I volunteered at Abandon Normal Devices for a few days at the beginning of the month- invigilating, investigating and taking part in events and screenings in various sites across the city. Hosting film, installation, live events, performance and workshops, the Festival of New Cinema and Digital Culture is in its second year and ran from 1st – 7th October. It was good to do, but it only served to reiterate the fact that I want to be an artist over any other kind of events/gallery based work. I saw Sheena Macrae’s Odyssey on show at the Cornerhouse Gallery when UnSpooling opened- the piece was different to how I had imagined. I think the scale of the work in actual fact threw me. I had imagined impossibly large screen- tens of metres across! In fact mirrors are used to display this illusion, even better. I knelt down and stared into the ongoing reflection these magical strips of light that had been created with parallel panes and didn’t care that I felt (and probably looked) like a small child in awe.
I have set up a kind of makeshift studio space in the spare room of my house, which is actually light and spacious enough to work in for the time being. I have most of the materials I need now, gon get cracking.
